Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns. (Courtesy Photos)
Acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns and historian and professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., will share The George Washington University’s Lisner Auditorium, 730 21st Street NW., to engage in a candid conversation about race in America on March 14. The American Fault Line: A Conversation on Race and the American Ideal will be moderated by Carlos Watson of OZY and it coincides with the forthcoming PBS films: Burns’s Jackie Robinson (April 11 & 12)and Gates’s Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise (Fall 2016). Doors are scheduled to open at 6 p.m. and the program is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. The event is free but guests must get tickets. To reserve a ticket for the event, visit gwutickets.com.
